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I don’t think that Corbyn is playing a long game. He’s quite happy with the prospect of us leaving the EU, and he’s more interested in the gesture politics in which he has spent his career rather than dealing with […]

Oh dear! Saw him play at the Barbican about ten years ago. It’s usually quite a sterile atmosphere there but he really shook the place up; seemed to have half of the audience dancing onstage throughout the gig.

I take some comfort from Johnson being booed at the test match this weekend. A non-political event and it would be hard to identify the crowd as left or right wing; more likely a mixture of people with varying […]

I’ve heard there’s a director’s cut hidden away. They don’t escape but are captured by the Nazis. Maria and the captain placed in front of a firing squad. Kids led off to a boarding school run by the Hitler Youth.

‘Between the Lines’. Early 90s drama set in the complaints and investigations branch of the Met Police. First two series were great at exploring the moral complexities of police work and the pressures to which […]

From the story I can’t see that this prevents that this prevents re-use from specific sources if they have been made available under the appropriate licensing. For example, Wikimedia Commons or flickr when posted […]

Comments make clear the marketing people didn’t do a very good job. This happened last time he came over when he played one night at the same venue; I found out about three weeks beforehand and it was sold out. […]

Venue: Under the Bridge, London
Date: 03/07/2018
Never experienced a build-up to a gig like this. It was the night that England played Colombia, the venue management put the game up on big screens arranged […]

Well worth a listen through BBC iPlayer – a Radio 4 documentary on the art of interviewing rock stars. Interesting contributions from a number of writers including Caitlin Moran, Barney Hoskyns, Dawn Slough …. […]

Haven’t done the full scale road trip, but a few years ago the Mrs and I spent a couple of weeks in New Mexico and did plenty of driving around the desert and lower reaches of the Rockies. The words that kept […]